Death

It been a while and I thought it might be appropriate, at the end of the year to talk about death.  There are some ends that have happened  or will soon. First, is my friend Deb.  She is the first of my cancer friends to die.  First person that is close to me since my mother in 1996.  Also of cancer.  I know it is inevitable that others will.  As is said so often, death is a part of life.  It relieves our pain and starts us toward a new life.  It leaves the ones close to us behind.  So we grieve, I think more for ourselves being left without that spouse or friend,  or advisor.  After a while the deep pain we feel subsides and we think a little less often about them, but their spirit remains alive in us.  And it is that essence that we carry with us from life to life.  Ever feel like a person you just met is familiar?  That feeling is the spirit of our past spouses,  parents, children or friends.  It is  a constant cycle of spirit with no beginning and no end.  Maybe when we shed all Karma we can fade into the infinity of God universal.  
But until that happens we cope as best we can with life.  We try to evolve into better people and help where we can.  Guided by the spirit of those who are not physically with us.  I know that as I get older and people I know die, I will be finding spirits from my past,and new spirits, to guide me in the future as I will for them.  So, I know that we might feel left behind by those who die, but it is only temporary. We have a constant through all of this.  That constant is the faith that God/universe is always with us. We part a bit  from God as living beings some of us trying to rejoin in life.  Some can, most don't even think about it. It is a personal journey, God is unique for each of us.
I see the suffering and pain (sometimes drawn out way to long) that some go through. That part I have no explanation for.  That part is the worse for all experiencing it. But, what comforts me is that the suffering does end.  At that point we all accept the inevitable.  Death is not the finale.  It is part of that infinite cycle.  It is a new beginning.